Very interesting tactic. The raccoon opts to hug the railing and shimmy in order to only allow the cat to strike its back and top, while being able to continue pushing forward in order to force the cat up and away from the food that it wanted. It made itself into a wedge.
cats arent tree climbers. raccoons are wrestlers and they mate in trees. its worth the ineffectual batting of paws to get a simple meal. i think bears likely win out against big cats as well.
@@nm1raider758are you serious? He really think he avoided the fight or the cat did? Then you say “he didn’t engage in the fight”, so what do you call that when someone charges at you and you hit them 4 or 6 times and run off? You’d probably call it a win! Well call that your defeat as your running back to your momma! Wake up and listen to what you’re saying! It might help you out one day! This coon didn’t avoid shit!
He didn't do anything to the cat, even where it attacked. It would be easy for the raccoon to tear the cat apart, but he didn't want to hurt her, he was just hungry. :) 😘🦝 -He just pushed her out of the way. 😘🐈⬛
@@walterschneider8033 This cat was pawing on the head, and almost got him in the eye, but this raccoon was desperate for food. Raccoons are tough animals with thick fur and hide, so you are right, the cats claws would have little effect on body or head strikes. The eyes and nose would be the most effective and sensitive areas for a cat to strike the raccoon. I have an 11 pound female all white cat who did exactly that to a much larger male raccoon a couple years back. This raccoon was not starving. He was probably a 20 - 30 pound animal feeding out of local dumpsters and such. I watched the entire encounter from a window facing the backyard. Our two cats were both relaxing in the yard watching the raccoon digging around in the grass for a while. Both of them had the higher ground advantage. Cali, the cat in my profile pic was up on a wood pile, and Courtney, the bigger white cat was in a yard chair. At one point the raccoon got curious and approached Courtney. She remained relaxed until he went under the chair. At that point, she stood up and began showing a more defensive / aggressive posture. The coon then meandered back to the front side of the chair, placed his paws onto the front of the seat and tried to sniff Courtney. She let out a growl that sounded like a bobcat and struck him once right in the nose. He spun around and fled the yard as fast as he could with Courtney right on his tail and they both went out of sight. I went out there to be sure the cat would be safe, but it all happened way too fast. In a little while Courtney returned, but that raccoon never has come back to this yard. There are much safer places for him to find a meal. My guess is that having the higher ground advantage, and getting the coon with a powerful strike in his most sensitive area - his nose, was what led to this outcome. Plus, as i said earlier, this raccoon was huge, but not desperate for food.
@@jerrywoods4066 True. It always depends on the individual animals involved and the situation. My cat defeated a much larger raccoon because of those two things. My cat is very territorial over her space, and will be fiercely aggressive to defend her space in the house and yard. The raccoon she faced was not starving, nor was it protecting it's young. I have seen a video where a female raccoon fought off and chased away a young male bobcat that was too close to her nest of babies for comfort. That is where the 'situation' and the 'individual animal' comes in. If that was an older, bigger, hungry and more experienced bobcat, the female raccoon and her young could have been on the menu.
Obviously these two know eachother - uncomfortably. The cat was not clawing, just boxing the racoon's head. This was probably not the first time they've played out this little routine. Very cute.
Must be a house cat, I don't think the cat would of given up so easily if it's next meal wasn't a meow away. And a good tactic by the raccoon head down and push forward. Basically the cat had no where to go accept down.
This raccoon’s legs are wet and she was likely either drinking water or was dipping her hands in to soften their paw pads. They will sometimes get in a dish or other water source and submerge all four feet. Typically one of the rabies symptoms presents as foaming at the mouth, and it’s caused by the inability to swallow. This raccoon can swallow quite well. lol This raccoon is hungry and healthy and shows no outward signs of neurological impairment. In other words.. this is a hungry raccoon.
From what I've read, Raccoons are not really fighters and will typically AVOID a fight at all costs like he/she did here. The Raccoon just went UNDER the cat and only to get to the food and never raised a paw not even once. It's salivating smelling that cat food! 😁
That coon didn’t avoid shit! Do you know what that word means? He goes at the cat whether high or low doesn’t matter. Takes a few licks and keeps on moving forward! How TF do you get the coon avoided anything!
This cat was pawing on the head, and almost got him in the eye, but this raccoon was desperate for food. Raccoons are tough animals with thick fur and hide, so you are right, the cats claws would have little effect on body or head strikes. The eyes and nose would be the most effective and sensitive areas for a cat to strike the raccoon. I have an 11 pound female all white cat who did exactly that to a much larger male raccoon a couple years back. This raccoon was not starving. He was probably a 20 - 30 pound animal feeding out of local dumpsters and such. I watched the entire encounter from a window facing the backyard. Our two cats were both relaxing in the yard watching the raccoon digging around in the grass for a while. Both of them had the higher ground advantage. Cali, the cat in my profile pic was up on a wood pile, and Courtney, the bigger white cat was in a yard chair. Courtney is not much of a hunter, and usually leaves the smaller animals alone. But she is very territorial, and more likely to be aggressive with larger animals in the house or yard. I have had to stop her at least three times from attacking leashed dogs walking by the house. She would flee from a real aggressive dog, but if the animal shows any timidness at all, she is likely to go into full on attack mode. She even fights off local tom cats that try to wander through the yard. I have had to go out there to break up a few of those standoffs as well. At one point the raccoon got curious and approached Courtney. She remained relaxed until he went under the chair. At that point, she stood up and began showing a more defensive / aggressive posture. The coon then meandered back to the front side of the chair, placed his paws onto the front of the seat and tried to sniff Courtney. She let out a growl that sounded like a bobcat and struck him once right in the nose. He spun around and fled the yard as fast as he could with Courtney right on his tail and they both went out of sight. I went out there to be sure the cat would be safe, but it all happened way too fast. In a little while Courtney returned, but that raccoon never has come back to this yard. There are much safer places for him to find a meal. My guess is that having the higher ground advantage, and getting the coon with a powerful strike in his most sensitive area - his nose, was what led to this outcome. Plus, as i said earlier, this raccoon was huge, but not desperate for food.
@@jeffdavidfleming I wish i had a video of the raccoon encounter, but i was watching and ready to rush out there if things got ugly, and once it got to the point of confrontation, everything happened very quickly - just one powerful well placed paw swipe with a loud growl, and a chase out of the backyard, and out of view. The only videos i have with Courtney are friendly interactions with me. What i should do is set up a few strategic trail cams around the yard. If i have one in the front as well, maybe i can find out who it is that keeps letting their dog poop there without picking it up, lol.
That’s what I was saying, a cats claws wouldn’t be a lot of help cause they wouldn’t get past that thick fur on a coon! People for some reason think of coon like a squirrel or possum or something! They’re not! They are more like a mix between a bobcat and a jack Russel terrier! They’re wild animals people! Even the ones raised by people!
The standard rule of thumb is as I have been told: Whenever a feral, or domestic animal is bitten, or scratched by a wild animal, it is automatically classified as having rabies. In my older videos, I have two rabid cats that was euthanized by the veterinarian after animal control picked them both up, and were observed. A rabies declaration was issued. The black cat had a racoon claw swipe on its forehead with fur missing. Both cats were in two different stages of rabies. One was muddled, the other was aggressive. The video is in my sort by date added (oldest) video drop down list.
I watched your video. I enjoyed the black cat's cool attitude. My cat was named Adolf Hisser. He was a stray that stayed here for a while. I got him pretty tame before he went missing.
Yeah, its getting wild out there. Crazy peeps wanting to euthanize everything. As long as the never-proven contagion theory persists, the biocide continues. Divide and rule. Clean and unclean. Some like it hot, fucking rabies jab messed up my dog badly and its imposition cost us years apart as I moved from Italy to England. Because vaccines dont work and the detaection of the right antibodies is hit and miss and means even little than that. Do your homeowork. The fence was always virtual anyway. Peace out!
@@eeemotion That's a new one! An anti vaccer campaigning for animals. I'm sorry what you went thru w your dog; I'm an animal lover. But if your biocide theory is true, how were smallpox & other deadly viruses nearly eliminated? There hasn't been smallpox since the late 40's, with baby boomers being some of the last folks w smallpox vaccine scars, like my parents. How come polio is so rare, practically eliminated, except where it's still endemic in Asia & affecting those who've remained unvaccinated? An how did our vaccinated dachshund get bit on the nose by a rabid badger when she stuck her nose in a hole & not get rabies? Defiantly not a hit an miss. My cousin was bit by a rabid animal in her youth & was hospitalized & recieved series of injections. If that was your child would you go on a vaccine rant, or cure your child w the vaccine & follow up immunoglobulins? Or just be like wtf it's hit or miss? There's no doubt vaccines can cause serious & deadly complications. It's not a virtual fence however, but a benefit outwaying a risk. An that nasty ass HPV virus is basically sexually transmitted cancer. HPV being prominent in the world, I wouldn't wanna risk cervical cancer in my children, especially having watched a friend go thru that. Those vaccines are not available to older adults, even if you test negative for HPV. An though I had a serious vaccine reaction to a flu vaccine that affected me for over 6 months, I still opt to be vaccinated. Do your research. Feelings aren't facts.
@@rikih1442 you needed a covid vaccine, you dumb kkk))unt- and you're handing out health advice to your superiors? Pathetic. I'll bet a sickly gunt like you needs their flu vax, too. Laughing at the diseased bottom of the gene pool is good fun. We're not the same- not even close- grandma
I would really worry about that raccoon drooling like it was and its' aggression. If that was my cat I wouldn't have been filming but running out the door screaming to scare off that raccoon to protect my cat.
I expected the cat to defend our porch. The new cat is much bigger but he doesn't defend the porch either. The dog defends the porch. He loves to fight anyone who dares enter.
@@jeffdavidfleming Yes in the end your cat was smart for not getting into an all out fight just over a little bowl of cat food. If the outcome would have been bad, the vet bills and the injured cat wouldn't have been worth it.
Raccoons tend to salivate when provoked, it doesn't have rabies. Also, raccoons will avoid fighting in most instances and will not be aggressive unless they're rabid. I've had one as a pet, they're very docile and intelligent animals.
It didn't look like it was destroying anything there to me at all. Just doing the bare minimum it needed to to get a little snack. The standoff was so harmless between a pair of different whiskered tree climbing neighborhood petite to medium mammals, I was able to laugh, was watching it in pure amusement. I love cats to death (way more than dogs), have always owned them, would've been turned off emphatically had I believed the cat to be in danger. I'm not saying the raccoon couldn't have harmed the cat, but I don't believe it wanted to get scratched up & bitten just to win a fight, as all it really was wanting was some clean food it saw, that that cat gets all the time anyways. And being that a spontaneous happening such as that costs the owners literally pennies, I don't see reason to hyperventilate? The raccoon's part of that ecosystem, I'd worry if it was a snake that crawled up on my porch, but a raccoon just wants to sometimes be taken care of.
I've seen vids where the cat shreds the raccoon. I think it depends mostly on the cat's size relative to the raccoon, and the cat's age and attitude. That was a BIG raccoon compared to that cat.
I know a guy who killed a raccoon with a chain. Ten cats couldn’t have shredded his arm the way that raccoon did. He’ll Carry the scars to his grave. It’s foolish to try and compare the two animals.
Racoons are smarter than cats and this one had some practical knowledge. It hugged the railing because it knew a cat's strategy is always to knocks things down!
They are not cute animals. My barn cat has been close to death twice due to raccoon attacks, both times requiring vet visits, so I started stepping in and evened up the score. Human 3, raccoons 0. Plenty of wild country out there for them. If they want to attack my cat it will cost them.
that raccoon is a bully. That cat should've stood its ground....it's that CAT'S food, not that thievin' raccoon's.....i agree with the comment about getting a 22 caliber to take care of the problem.
No way would I of been filming my cat with a raccoon wanting to eat the cat food. Raccoons are very territorial and will kill a cat over food when they are hungry. Who ever filmed this your lucky your cat did not get hurt bad or killed.
I was thinking the same thing exactly-who just films their cat being threatened by a raccoon (thankfully it didn't get worse) they have MANY diseases & can kill your cat. That's just sad & wrong on a few levels-like why would you Let it eat the cats food instead of scaring it off-now it knows where to come & easily get food w no human to deal w & your cat will be in danger every time-way to be there & help your cat in a dangerous situation there pal 👏🤬😼
Raccoons are scavengers and farmers in WI consider them a nuisance. I was told that if I saw one on the road to run it over. Too many of them cause a lot of damage. They are very good eating. So if the prices get too high in the grocery store, you may want to hunt them. Cute yes but they also carry rabies. If you see one out through the day, they may have rabies. Raccoons are normally nocturnal. This one was after the cat food.
This content is uncomfortable! I fear for cat's safety. Shoo away coons! Discourage their presence! Keep pet food away from them! Rabies is highly contagious & common in coons. Also the strain of worms (Baylisascaris) that 60-95% of them carry have eggs that are nearly indestructible, stick to everything (including pet's paws) & are contagious to humans. Raccoon urine can contain harmful diseases that can kill or make pets seriously ill. Leptospirosis (also contagious to humans) is one such nasty illness. Discourage raccoons near your home! Dogs & cats lick their paws; every single thing they walk thru is lapped up by their tongue. This is so irresponsible!
y’all think that shit all funny and u can record all u want till that raccoon decide to kill your pet. think twice and protect your members have a good one
Why would you let that NASTY Animal eat your cats food??? And then just sit there and allow it to continue? Nasty Animal Racoons!!! Nothing good about that Animal, does nothing to help other than destroy things!
